falco

See also: Falco and falcó

Catalan

Verb

falco

1. first-person singular present indicative of falcar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfal.ko/
• Rhymes: -alko
• Hyphenation: fàl‧co

Etymology 1

From Late Latin falcō, probably of Germanic origin.

Noun

falco m (plural falchi)

1. hawk, falcon
2. (figurative) fierce and astute person
3. (politics, figurative, derogatory) warmonger, bellicist, hawk, war hawk

   Antonym: colomba

   • 2020 July 25, “La Polonia esce dalla Convenzione contro la violenza sulle donne”, in la Repubblica‎^[1]:

     L´annuncio ^[sic] della decisione è venuto in persona dal ministro della Giustizia Zbigniew Ziobro, che all'interno del PiS (Diritto e Giustizia, il partito sovranista di maggioranza, tornato al potere a fine 2015) è considerato un falco, leader dell'ala dura.

     The announcement of the decision came in person from the Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro, who within the PiS (Law and Justice, the souverainist majority party, returned to power at the end of 2015) is considered a war hawk, leader of the hard wing.

Derived terms

• falco coda rossa
• falco della regina
• falco di palude
• falco pecchiaiolo
• falco pellegrino
• falco pescatore
• falco predatore
• falcone
• falconeria

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

falco

1. first-person singular present indicative of falcare

Latin

Etymology 1

Uncertain and disputed origin, but probably from Germanic given the early attestation and widespread use of the word in Germanic. Perhaps from Old High German falco, falcho, falucho (“falcon”), from Proto-West Germanic *falkō, from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon", literally, "grey bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *polH-, *pelH- (“grey, bluish”) +‎ *-(u)k-, a suffix found in the names of several types of birds (e.g. *alkǭ, *habukaz, Proto-West Germanic *kranuk, etc.).

Cognate with Old Saxon falko (“falcon”), Old English *fealca, fealcen (“falcon”), Old Norse fálki (“falcon”), Old High German falo (“pale”), Latin pullus (“dusky coloured, blackish”). More at fallow.

Alternate etymology connects falco to Latin falx (“sickle, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelk-, *dʰelg- (“a cutting tool”) due to the bird's curved beak and talons, but this derivation is usually regarded as folk-etymology.

Alternative forms

• faltō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfal.koː/, [ˈfäɫ̪koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfal.ko/, [ˈfälko]

Noun

falcō m (genitive falcōnis); third declension

1. falcon
2. pigeon-toed person, person whose toes point in

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	falcō	falcōnēs
Genitive	falcōnis	falcōnum
Dative	falcōnī	falcōnibus
Accusative	falcōnem	falcōnēs
Ablative	falcōne	falcōnibus
Vocative	falcō	falcōnēs

Derived terms

• Falcō
• Faltō

 

Related terms

• flectō

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: falco, falcone
  • Sicilian: farcu, farcuni
    • → Maltese: falkun
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Piedmontese: falcon, farcon
  • Friulian: falcuç
  • Romansch: falcun
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: faucon (see there for further descendants)
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: falcó
  • Old Occitan: falcon
    • Occitan: falcon
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: falcón
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: falcon, falcõ
    • Galician: falcón
    • Portuguese: falcão
  • Old Spanish: falcon
    • Spanish: halcón

References

• “falco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• falco in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• falco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

See also

• falx

Etymology 2

Derivation of Latin falx.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfal.koː/, [ˈfäɫ̪koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfal.ko/, [ˈfälko]

Verb

falcō (present infinitive falcāre, perfect active falcāvī, supine falcātum); first conjugation (Vulgar Latin) (Medieval Latin)

1. to mow

Descendants

• Italian: falco, falcare

References

• falcare in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Old High German

Alternative forms

• falko, falcho, falc

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *falkō, from Proto-Germanic *falkô. See Latin falcō.

Noun

falco m

1. falcon

Descendants

• Middle High German: valke
  • German: Falke, Falk
  • Hunsrik: Fallek
  • Luxembourgish: Fallek